The Traveller's Guide Through Ireland Author:Joseph Robertson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1806 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: PROVINCE OF ULSTER. THIS province enjoys peculiar local advantages from its vicinity to the sea, being favoured with a watery boundary of an hundred leagues. The Irish sea forms the eastern border ; the Deucaledonian sea washes it on the north; and the Atlantic on the west. The only inland boundary is towards the south and south west, where it is conterminous with the province of Leinster and Connaught. Its length, from the extremity of Londonderry to the extremity of Cavan, is ninty-six miles, and its breadth, from Cape Telling, the extremeity of Donnegall, to Strangford Bay, the extremity of Down, is about one hundred and twenty. The circumambient boundaries are about four hundred and sixty miles ; and the area is computed at four millions, four hundred and ninty sixty thousand, two hundred and five British acres. The counties are nine in number ; the baronies fifty five ; the parishes three hundred and sixty-five; the boroughs twenty-nine ; the market towns fifty-eight ; one Arch-bishopric, and six bishoprics. In the infant state of the island, the province of Ulster was governed by petty kings, who held supremacy of the sovereigns of the other provinces and were dignified with the title of monarchs of Ireland. In the reign of King Henry II. it was subjected to the English by John De Courcy, who for his services received the title of Earl of Vlf. tr. It afterwards threw off its subjection, and enjoyed, for a considerable period, virtual independence, until its final subjugation by King James L Partly by the desolating sword, and partly by the coercive measures of government, Ulster was deprived o...« less